Category: Religion
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Red & Blue Christianity pt. 1
Understanding Progressivism and Christian Nationalism I’ve been rereading The Brothers Karamazov. This book changed my life when I read it at seventeen, and returning to its pages in a culture and at a time so different from the one in which I originally encountered them has given me a unique angle for considering the changes…
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GK Chesterton’s Orthodoxy
A Short Review I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it is, in terms of its physical object, one of ugliest books that I have ever seen. Literally everything is wrong. The low res photo cover is trash. The paper is…well actually the paper is not bad. But most tragically, the…
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Is Finding a Purpose for Losers?
The Bourgeois Man Makes His Case. Going by the title, you might assume that this book would be some religious self-help text about strengthening one’s faith. You’d be wrong. Published in the aftermath of WWII, The True Believer is instead an attempt to describe the psychology of the individual member of a mass movement, any…
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Answers for Ben Cremer about the Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies
Christ-baiting Is a Time-Honored Tradition Well friends, the internet is in a tizzy again. In the last few days since the Olympics opening ceremony, people have been outraged that part of the ceremony involved a scene in which a group of drag queens had been organized so as to resemble Da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper.”…
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Dean Abbott is an ass
Dean Abbott is a chaplain and author of two books as well as the Substack blog The Anchor & the Waves. He is also an ass. To be fair, that title is a bit click-baity, and I don’t really know for a fact that Dean Abbott is an ass. I’ve only recently become aware of…
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The Problem with Ben Cremer
I first found out about Ben Cremer a few years ago when some mutuals on Facebook started sharing his posts. Then, as now, he was (following in the footsteps of the likes of John Pavlovitz) growing his platform by posting woke “Christian” takes on everything from abortion to BLM. As it turns out, that is…
The Barking Years 